The Host & Hostess

Jessica Szohr and Ed Westiwick attending LA's Confederacy for artist Todd DiCiurcio's new show Heartstrings sponsored by Rag & Bone. Ed also hosted the event this weekend. Jessica stood out in her beautiful pinstripe suit and chunky chain necklace. You can find the whole story and more pictures here.

Toe Pick

My official winter sport is now ice skating. Yes, although snowboarding should be number one because its my favourite, its also a lot more expensive than ice skating. After my brother sharpened up his new hockey skates and I rented my figure skates we spent our Tuesday night skating around the rink. Although I was a bit shaky at first, my feet quickly remembered the smooth strides of my skates on the ice. So as Ben practices for the UVU hockey try-outs, I will be spending time getting reacquainted with my Canadian roots on the ice.

Back From The Mother Land

No not Russia, but my homeland, Canada! Last week I got to go home and spent Canadian Thanksgiving with my Dad. First I was almost late for my flight, the Delta employee was nice enough to let me still check in and I ran to the gate. After a quick layover in Cincinnati I almost didn't get my flight to Buffalo because my flight was over booked. Luckily the lady at the desk was so nice and got me a ticket, seat A1, right by the cockpit, it was awesome. The whole trip was so much fun, just spending time with my family, seeing my aunts, uncles, cousins and new babies of cousins. The first couple days were spent hanging out with my dad around my aunts house, stopping by Tim Horton's a little too often. But on Wednesday we went to Toronto! It was so much fun. Walked up and down Queen W. street and looked at all the vintage shops. Then walked around Toronto and shopped at the Eaton Centre for a good while. Finally after a long day we drove down town a bit to meet my cousins and have some delicious dinner at The Keg. I had a wonderful Zesty Salmon - a grilled fillet basted with a sweat and mildly spicy sauce. Served with chili mayonnaise and rice pilaf and for dessert, apple crumble and crème brûlée. On Thursday we ventured to Niagara-On-The-Lake walking around all the little shops, grabbing hot chocolate at a cafe, and eating yummy pub style fish and chips at the Angel Inn. The next 2 days were spent with family and finally the long flight home. I also got a lot of fun souvenirs and such! I am missing Canada so much and hope to go back soon!

Happy World Vegetarian Day

October first is officially World Vegetarian Day and the kick-off of Vegetarian Awareness Month. Make a difference and explore the variety of tasty and healthy meat-free foods and informing others about the vegetarianism benefits. Help create a better world with the vegetarian diet. They have proven health benefits, saves animals and helps preserve the earth. And for those who are meat eaters why not try a meat-free diet for 24 hours? Just to see that it can be done. Well once again I want to wish everyone, vegetarian or not, a Happy World Vegetarian Day!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEAGHAN!

Today is my dear sister Meaghan's 23rd birthday! Although she is kinda lame to be spending it at her house in LA and I wish we could hangout today, I still would like to wish her a Happy Birthday! So Happy Birthday Meaghan! Everyone loves you so much!! and if people actually looked at my blog I would make everyone leave a comment for you but....Happy birthday to my wonderful, kind, beautiful, amazing, fun, hilarious best friend and sister Meaghan!

A Must See

On Tuesday I was able to see a special screening of the new movie Zombieland. I was hesitant to go see it but considering it was free I couldn't pass it up. So with a large popcorn, two soda drinks, and my brothers, the movie began...Its a hilarious horror movie with heartwarming characters and excellent dialogue. Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), is a big wuss and spent most of his free time playing World of Warcraft in his dorm room before the zombie apocalypse. At the beginning he establishes his own set of "rules" for surviving the zombie infection which are soon tested with his new found companion and bad-ass zombie slayer Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson). They eventually team up with Wichita (Emma Ston) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) who have their own unique take on zombie surviving. I literally laughed out loud almost the entire movie at the zombie killing, the characters and my favourite part, the Bill Murray zombie. Josh also made me giggle with his loud infectious laugh. Needless to say my opinion of the movie changed, Its easily one of the funniest movies I have seen this year.

Love Is All You Need

On 9/9/09 Rock Band released their newest game The Beatles: Rock Band. Yes its been out for almost three weeks now, but I only had the money to buy it yesterday. Being a fan of Rock Band and The Beatles, made this game so very appealing. You get to see and listen to The Beatles making music history as they take you along their journey. They provide you with an amazing song list, with songs such as: Hard Days Night, Back In The USSR, Day Tripper, Eight Days A Week and much much more. You also get to play all the different places the actual Beatles got to play like, The Cavern Club, Shea Stadium, and on the Apple rooftop. I cannot wait to go home and play some more great Beatles tunes on the X box!! Hurray!

Playground Workout

Jessica Szohr and Self Magazine put together a fun workout full of swings, slides and monkey bars. You can look at the magazine steps or watch the video here, either way they are very helpful. These unique moves will help you tone up while using your own body as the resistance. I think I will definitely be trying this workout when I go running, it looks like so much fun! So get out play and tone up those muscles for a full body make over.

Meet the Meat Puppets

Yesterday my brother Ben, his friend Jared and I all went to the Meat Puppets concert at The Urban Lounge. It was a late show that's for sure. The doors opened at 9 o'clock, the first band from, Austin, Texas with an amazing chick guitarist who really rocked it on stage, came on around 9:45. After a Blue Moon and orange slice the second band came on around 10:30, a little more harder, exciting. Then finally at midnight The Meat Puppets came out! The crowd was a smaller one, not too out of control except for the cougar in the beige blazer who was doe-see-doeing with everyone, including our small group of three. It was an awesome and fun show ended at around 1:30. Where presiding we went out to Denny's for a 2 am breakfast!

Thanks Wisconson

True I've always been a Blair Waldorf fan but boy did Vanessa squeeze her way in unknowingly. With an amazing fashion sense, beautiful eyes, gorgeous hair and a hot body, no wonder Jessica Szohr won the hearts of so many fan boys, including her current boyfriend and costar, Ed Westwick. In season one of Gossip Girl she was the sweet puffy haired girl next door best friend of Dan Humphry. But come season three, shes turned up the heat to sexy girl from Brooklyn, now freshman at NYU! Shes appeared multiple times in Teen Vogue for her wonderful fashion sense, cute hats and new shopping partner, Style Blogger, Andrew Bevan. Also, Jessica has appeared in Lucky, Nylon, Men's Health, Rolling Stone and Ocean Drive magazines, all just this year. Shes just beautiful done up and au natural. So just a heads up I will be following her closely, in a non creepy way, and keep you updated on her events and fashion. Because yes she is my new favourite person to follow! Here are some pictures of the beautiful Jessica Szohr...